Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-28
HIRSUTE APPENDICES.
The Way Some Prominent Men
Wear Their Beard.

w ear lnelt BFafu.
NEW YORK, March 26.-Rutus Blodgett,
the new Senator from New Jersey, who
Is more than half a New Yorker, is as
bald and shiny on top of his head as any
china door knob. You might imagine
you were looking down upon a row of
babies heads were you to see sitting in
row at theatre Messrs. Bob Ingerson.
Henry ;1eorge, L. A. Merriman, the Con-
gressman; Henry Clews, the banker; Dion
BOucicault, Speaker Hustled, of the New
YORK Assembly; Joseph Howard, Jr and
August Belmont. The Hon. Lew Z. Nor
ton, the banker and eX-Minister to Paris,
avoids this dread mistake by covering his
head with the handi work OF man.
Coates have almost entirely dIsap-
peared from mems faces, but Joe Howard
still clings to his; in fact, the one be
wears is exactly the one he first grew
when he began reporting under Henry j.
Raymond In the good old days before the
war. No ruthless razor has ever touched
that demi-beard. Buffalo Bill and Cbes-
ter ;. Lord, the managing editor OF the
sun, also wear COATES. JoAn SWinion
always mas the appearance Of having
carefully mussed his Thin white hair be-
fore lie stepped out o! doors in the morn
ing. When he receives OF pays visit he
usually tides himself by giving an extra
disturbance to his hair by running his
fingers through it. Parke Goodwin, Jay
tiould and stephen V. White allow their
hair to grow all over their faces as it Will,
but Messrs. Gould and White keep theirs
trimmed close and neatly. Gen. Sha er,
the father OF the lire departments OF Chi
cago and New York, wears his hair
brushed straight up above his forehead
like wall on the edge Of Cliff. and
George Ehret, the greatest of the eighty
brewers who keep New YOrk's GROWER
filled, combs his locks straight back
without parting, like little girls, ex-
cept that he wears no back comb.
Henry Bergh, the champion OF all dumb
creatures, mas an elaborate and original
method OF cultIvating his head covering.
He plasters 1t down on mis- forehead and
then brings the ends around over and i'll
front OF his ears. Gen. Roger A. Pryor's
style of wearing his hair suggests the old
rustic method of putting bowl over the
head and cutting the back locks even with
the edge of the vessel. HIS straight black
hair falls in a sheer descent TO his coat
collar and then is suddenly chopped OF.
Judge Barrett has suggestion OF pun
over his forehead, and Whltelaw Reid
used to wear his hair long and full be-
hind, but now the handsome editor wears
it trimmed shorI behind like youths.
No man In the city pays more attention 10
his hair than Gen. Daniel L. Slckles. 1t
is always scrupulously well barbered. In
the State Department at Washington
there Is an album that was intended for
some Oriental p0tentate, but never was
sent. 1t contains the portraits
of all the Union Generals as they were at
the opening of the war: A gauut black
haired Mcclellan; thin, black-headed,
boyish Hancock: a Grant you would not
know at all, and a very youthful Sher-
man. But the portrait OF Gen. Dan
Sickles in that book is u portrait OF Gen.
Sickles of to-day, minus the crutches
with which he is forever accompanied.
Whether he has a barber call upon him
every morning or not do not know. 1t
is often done here in town and costs SOC.
a day. Gen. Chester A. Arthur used to
indulge In the luxury and so did A,
Oakley Hall. Grover Cleveland, by the
way, has been shaved at home Tor about
four years. The handsomest head Of hair
in town is that OF Ed Stokes, of the HCff
man HOuse-whlte, just little peppered
with black, and as decelving a wig as is
anywhere worn is that on the head OF Mr..
Francis B. Thurber, husband OF the lady
at the head of the National Opera Com
panv. JULIAN RALPH.